EASI Online Courses for November:

EASI (Equal Access to Softwware and Information) is offering 3 month-long,
instructor-led courses designed to assist institutions to make their
computer and information technologies more accessible to people with
disabilities.  Anyone taking 5 of these courses will earn the Certificate
in Accessible Information Technology.  EASI's instructors have had years of
experience teaching online and training providers in the skills they need
to make their facilities accessible.  The courses themselves are also
accessible.

1  Beginner Barrier-free Web Design
http://easi.cc/workshops/easiweb.htm

This course explains both the accessibility guidelines of the World Wide
Web's Web Accessibility Initiative and the Federal Access Board's
accessibility Section 508 standards.  We recognize that most people making
Web pages today do so using authoring tools that permit them to create Web
pages without knowing much about the HTML code.  Our courses also do not
require extensive knowledge of HTML.  We explain the access problems and
solutions which will enable someone's using them with such authoring tools.

2  Assistive Technology on a Shoestring: the EASI Way
http://easi.cc/workshops/ltech.htm
Quality assistive technology can be complex like major computer
applications and also expensive.  For those who are heavy computer users
and who need them, they are indispensable.  However, for others with
temporary disabling conditions or those who seldom require the use of
computers, there are less expensive alternatives that may be
adequate.  Operating systems have some function ability for users with
disabilities built into them.  This course will deal with such
technologies.  This information is useful for small colleges with few
students with disabilities but which need immediate solutions at hand in
case such students arrive without previous notice.  They are not permanent
solutions but would plug a gap till more permanent arrangements can be made.

Barrier-free E-learning
http://easi.cc/workshops/bfel.htm
Everyone is putting courses online or are putting segments of courses
online.  There are few courses indeed which do not require students to get
some course content from the Web.  In the rush to upload course content,
many providers have not stopped as yet to consider the accessibility of
such content.  This course will deal with the accessibility of the major
course management systems and help to make clear the most common access
problems that faculty make in preparing content for online
delivery.  Faculty will rarely ever take the time to learn HTML.  Most
training on putting information on the Web is oriented towards serious Web
designers.  We will deal with the limited knowledge faculty will require
for their needs.

**** Note: EASI also provides regular free and tuition-based live Web
conference on these and related topics:
http://easi.cc/clinic.ht